UTR#51 actually uses Unicode CLDR region codes for legal/required pairs of Regional Indicator Symbol Letters U+1F1E6–FF, but they are virtually identical to current ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code elements. Some codes, however, had once been part of ISO 3166 but have since been deleted (and either exceptionally or transitionally reserved) or are indeterminately reserved for compatibility with other international standards. Some exceptional reservations are part of CLDR. Most transitional reservations now have ISO 3166-3 alpha-4 codes, which Unicode does not intend to support. Indeterminate reservations have been very rarely assigned to new countries and this probably won’t happen again.
Anyhow, many of the currently re